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Title: Comparing the attitudes toward money, material possessions and savings of overseas Chinese vis-à-vis Chinese in China : convergence, divergence or cross-vergence, vis-à-vis 'one size fits all' human resource management policies and practices
Related: International journal of human resource management, Vol. 20, No. 11, (2009), p.2382-2401
DOI: 10.1080/09585190903239724
Publisher: United Kingdom : Routledge
Date: 2009
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 150300 Business and Management
Author/Creator: Tung, Rosalie L
Author/Creator: Baumann, Christoph
Description: Data on attitudes toward money, material possessions and savings were collected from 692 respondents in Australia, Canada and China in 2008. On the basis of ethnicity, the sample was divided into five sub-groups: Caucasians in Australia; Chinese in Australia; Caucasians in Canada; Chinese in Canada; and Chinese in China. Results of bivariate and multivariate analyses of variance revealed that the savings rate and attitudes toward money/material possessions of Chinese who were born and raised in Australia and Canada were more similar to their counterparts in China than to the Caucasians in Australia and Canada. This finding shows convergence on the basis of ethnicity, thus suggesting that intra-national diversity can be as salient as cross-national differences and highlights the need to examine the effectiveness of ‘one size fits all’ human resource management policies and practices within a domestic context.
Description: 20 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 150300 Business and Management
Subject Keyword: Australia
Subject Keyword: Canada
Subject Keyword: China
Subject Keyword: cross-national
Subject Keyword: HRM
Subject Keyword: money
Subject Keyword: possesions
Subject Keyword: savings
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Business

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/148995
Identifier: ISSN:0958-5192
Identifier: mq-rm-2009001773
Language: eng
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